Tag: SRI ESG

February 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal
judge in Illinois has thrown out as unconstitutional a 2005
Illinois law limiting pension investments and state banking
business with Sudan-connected companies.

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado state
legislators last week unanimously passed what was described
as the nation's toughest and most comprehensive legislation
to help end the genocide in Sudan.

November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust
has announced that Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI)
will now offer a Socially Responsible Large Cap Equity Index
strategy designed to follow the performance of the Domini 400
Social Index.

January 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Socially
responsible investment (SRI) assets grew faster than the
entire universe of managed assets in the United States during
the last 10 years, according to the Social Investment
Forum's fifth biennial report on SRI trends.

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK money
managers can certainly go the socially responsible equity
fund investing (SRI) route if they want to please a client or
to do "the right thing", but they shouldn't look for a
performance boost in the process, according to a new research
paper.

MARKET MIRROR

Wednesday, the Dow lost 141.71 points (0.55%) to finish at 25,745.67, the NASDAQ was up 5.02 points (0.07%) at 7,728.97, and the S&P 500 was down 8.34 points (0.29%) at 2,824.23. The Russell 2000 decreased 11.83 points (0.76%) to 1,543.16, and the Wilshire 5000 closed 97.03 points (0.33%) lower at 29,200.52.

The price of the 10-year Treasury note increased 25/32, bringing its yield down to 2.531%. The price of the 30-year Treasury bond climbed 1 5/32, decreasing its yield to 2.968%.